Biblia Hebraica Secundum Ultimam Editionem Jos Athiae A Johanne Leusden Denuo Recognitum

by Everardi Van Der Hooght

$18,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Philadelphia: Printed by William Fry for Thomas Dobson, 1814. The first edition of the first complete Hebrew Bible published in America. Octavo. Two volumes finely bound in modern full leather with spine tooled in gilt. Bound without blanks and half-titles; lacking the publisher's leaf explaining the genesis of this edition, which is found in very few copies. Pages toned with a few stains throughout. Title pages remargined.

• Binding: Leather

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